Michelle Smith

The Chattahoochee Trace in southeast Alabama and west Georgia is steeped in Native, African and early American tradition--stories often deeply rooted in folklore. Unusual beasts such as the Kolowa, the Wampus Cat and even Bigfoot roam the area. Crossroads magic, hoodoo and Huggin' Molly make their homes in the storied region. The Native American trickster rabbit, the Nunnehi Cherokee watchers, the tales of the Indian mounds and the saga of Brookside...

By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles-her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more-exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or...

Life is a series of moments. Some are big, grandiose moments that change our lives altogether. But many are ordinary, seemingly insignificant blips of time. And when you add them all up, when you really pause and look at the collection of moments you've lived, you'll find that they actually make up a pretty extraordinary life. This book takes you through a journey of some of the most ordinary moments that I've learned from in my life and experiences...

Mothers are powerful influences on little girls' lives. Until we have children of our own, we often don't realize just how much our lives are shaped by the women who raised us. Growing up with a mother who suffered from depression and bipolar disorder shaped me in many ways, and taught me lessons that I carried with me into adulthood. This life experience left me with limiting beliefs that shadowed who I was and prevented me from showing up as my...

Read along with Disney! It's Halloween, and the Buddies are going on a brand-new original adventure! The pups are excited to go trick-or-treating in their awesome costumes, but when a black cat keeps appearing, their luck starts to turn. Follow along with the word for word narration as the Buddies track down this mysterious Halloween visitor, and get to the bottom of this spooky situation!

The Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore and a mother who refuses to accept her daughter's lesbianism. Then, just as Wanda decides to leave Sara, Wanda's new young lover, Cindy, is murdered. The...